Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire
A Theatrical Reading by Bill Oberst Jr.
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Bill Oberst Jr. Jr.
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Ray Bradbury
About this listen
"He came out of the earth hating. Hate was his father; hate was his mother."
Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire is a touring theatrical reading by Emmy Award winner Bill Oberst Jr., abridged from Bradbury's dark, violent, and poetic novella of the same name.
In this exclusive production for Audible, Oberst recreates an award-winning stage performance of the tale Bradbury called "a rehearsal for Fahrenheit 451."
Winner of a Best Solo Show of Hollywood Fringe award and an Ernest Kearney Platinum Medal, the original Los Angeles production was directed by Ezra Buzzington, who voices the roles of McClure and the Incinerator Attendant.
Pillar of Fire first appeared in the summer 1948 issue of Planet Stories magazine and is recorded by arrangement with Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Production sound design by Mark McLain Wilson. Credits voiced by Karen-Eileen Gordon.
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Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. The job proves more complicated and dangerous than he thought, however, as Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter (who is a heroin addict), and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II.
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Damned If You Do
- By Wag The Fox on 04-05-14
By: Clive Barker
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The Half-Made World
- By: Felix Gilman
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared - the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope.
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Terrible Story, Terrible Narrator
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The Troupe
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- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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Best-selling author Robert Jackson Bennett has won widespread critical acclaim for his unique brand of darkly inventive fiction. In The Troupe, 16-year-old George Carole joins vaudeville in search of Heironomo Silenus, the man he believes to be his father. But what he discovers casts a dark pall over his world: Silenus' troupe hides a dangerous secret - one that invites death to all in its vicinity.
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Not worth the effort!
- By Howard on 08-12-13
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Stations of the Tide
- By: Michael Swanwick
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
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By: Michael Swanwick
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Gravity's Rainbow
- By: Thomas Pynchon, Frank Miller - cover design
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 37 hrs and 21 mins
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
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"Time to touch the person next to you"
- By Jefferson on 07-04-16
By: Thomas Pynchon, and others
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- By: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrated by: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-14-13
By: Kelly Link - editor, and others
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Werewolf Cop
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
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Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster.
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Best in moral fantasy since CS Lewis!
- By Kindle Customer on 10-24-17
By: Andrew Klavan
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Haunted Nights
- A Horror Writers Association Anthology
- By: Ellen Datlow - editor, Garth Nix, Kelley Armstrong, and others
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Erin Spencer, James Patrick Cronin, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Here are 16 chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween. Included are stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween movies, and trick-or-treating in the future.
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Slow burn stories
- By Alex Sumner on 03-05-22
By: Ellen Datlow - editor, and others
What listeners say about Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire
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- Dragonslayer Audio
- 01-25-17
The Original Walking Dead - Leave It To Bradbury!
If you could sum up Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire in three words, what would they be?
I miss Bradbury.
What other book might you compare Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire to and why?
This is early Bradbury, written before all of the elements in his style had completely fused. His fans (I'm one) will recognize all the elements of later pieces like Usher II and even F451 but there's a rawness here that I think gives it its strength. It's angrier than a lot of his other early material and his passion for Poe has more of an edge to it here.
Have you listened to any of Bill Oberst Jr.’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
He is obviously enjoying the performance and the material. I like that passion.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Sympathy for a murdering dead man...who else but Ray Bradbury could make a reader feel that? I wanted William Lantry to burn them all down.
Any additional comments?
Poetic in places and just plain creepy in others. Thank you Mr. Bradbury. We really do miss you.
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- Jeff
- 11-11-16
Early Dystopian Magic From Bradbury
Where does Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
8/10
What did you like best about this story?
This is a bit of Bradbury I'd never heard of nor read. Very poetic and very dark. The last section sounds like a sort of hymn to Halloween. I've ordered the book containing the whole thing to read it in the entire form now. Surprised this story is not better known among Ray Bradbury fans.
Which character – as performed by Bill Oberst Jr. – was your favorite?
The dead man risen from the grave is actually a terrorist if you think about what he is doing, but you do feel sorry for him. The man who figures him out, McClure, is a question mark: is he the devil or is he saving his society? All very thought-provoking.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The last bit where the dead man is reciting all that he represents.
Any additional comments?
Heart-felt and fun, in that spooky sort of way. I'd recommend it to people who are into Bradbury's darker side. Oh, and a little knowledge of Poe helps to catch the references made here.
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- Julia
- 11-27-16
Not to be missed!
This is more of a performance than a reading. A true tour de force by the inimitable Bill Oberst Jr. You may never find a more passionate or ferociously entertaining recording in the Audible catalogue. Fans of Bradbury in particular will appreciate Bill's nuanced handling of this prose poetry. Not to be missed!
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- Grace
- 11-11-16
Good For Halloween Lovers
Would you listen to Ray Bradbury's Pillar of Fire again? Why?
Yes, it made me think about why we have Halloween and the people who say we shouldn't have it, like the man in the story who wants to kill the hero.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The dead man because he is sometimes scary and sometimes like a child - you want to help him at times but he is doing bad things like murder. He is a conflicting character.
Any additional comments?
I would recommend it - good music and sound effects and there is no bad language either. Ray Bradbury's mind was one of a kind.
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- countrybarb05
- 10-19-16
Excellent Theatrical Reading
Bill does an excellent job of bringing Ray Bradbury's words to life! I highly recommend this reading to anyone that is a fan of Bradbury's stories!
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